LUCKNOW, April 23 -- Lucknow's ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) has discovered two new species of Rohu from the rivers of western ghats. With the discovery, they claimed to have resolved the 150-year-old identity when the two new species were confused as Labeo nigrescens (Rohu).

The institute said that the discovery and the associated study was recently published in the Indian Journal of Fisheries as well.

"The ICAR-NBFGR has discovered two new freshwater fish species-Labeo uru and Labeo chekida from the rivers of the Western Ghats," said the central institute's director, Kajal Chakraborty. "With the discovery, the institute's scientists from the unit in Western region successfully resolved the 150-year-old identit...